Battle of Pont-Barré
Battle of Pont-Barré | |||||||
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Part of the War in the Vendée | |||||||
The old Pont Barré over the Layon River | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
French Royalists | Republican France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Pierre Duhoux Dominique Piron |
Jean Rossignol Charles Duhoux | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Catholic and Royal Army | Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
9,000 | 18,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
? | 2,362 |
The Battle of Pont-Barré (20 September 1793) saw Royalist Vendeans under Pierre Duhoux and Dominique Piron de La Varenne fighting a
Battle
On 20 September 1793 at Pont-Barré on the Layon, near Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay, the Republican forces of Charles François Duhoux d'Hauterive which sortied from Angers clashed with rebels led by the Republican general's own nephew, Pierre Duhoux d'Hauterive. The battle began and the Vendeans were markedly outnumbered but managed to resist the Blues. The majority of Republican troops were composed of conscripted farmers, less seasoned than the Vendean peasant soldiers. Dominique Piron de La Varenne, victorious the day before at the Battle of Coron arrived with reinforcements of cavalry and infantry. The Republicans had to beat a retreat and recoiled all the way to Les Ponts-de-Cé near Angers. The Republicans lost all their artillery and the nobleman Duhoux was later suspected of treason and of deliberately causing the defeat of his troops in favor of his nephew. The commissioner Pineau de Breuil later presided over the burial of those killed in the battle and counted 1,362 Republican bodies.
References
- Gras, Yves (1994). La Guerre de Vendée: 1793-1796 (in French). Economica.
- Johnson, Thomas George (1896). Francois-Severin Marceau (1769–1796). London: George Bell & Sons. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
- Some of the content of this article comes from the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article (retrieved August 30, 2015).
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